Word: darknesse
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Heart of Darkness. But though we were tired from the long journey, we were lured on and on and on, from building to building. What lured us was a sound which at first we had thought was the wind in the pines of Dachau. Then after a while we knew...
In London lights gleamed only in. patches around hotels, pubs, penny arcades. Around Piccadilly Circus, crowds, looking for lights, milled on one another's toes in the blackness. On Leicester Square, London's movie mecca, two beaconlike signs sliced the darkness. One said: "Gentlemen"; the other: "Ladies."
Secret of Contentment. In a prosperous riverside pub, The Anchor, Texan Dobie spent many hours "when darkness came early," swapping countryside legend and philosophy. There he would find at a corner table cronies like Horner, who ran away to sea at the age of 13, inveighing bitterly against politicians, against...
During a night raid on Tokyo by U.S. Superfortresses last week, the Japs struck out with something new in the Pacific war-jet-propelled fighters, probably built in Japan from German blueprints. Like their German prototypes, the Japanese jets were fast but ineffective. Their radar equipment must have been defective...
When darkness fell, the click of locks and latches betrayed the arrival of the gentle nightly burglar; and often there was a series of high shrieks as the cook (who suffered from "an unfortunate hereditary malady") chased his sister around the Women's Bible School with a knife. "Being...